SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 686, 19 July 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOET. HIGH WATEtt. This Day ... 2.25 a.m., 2.43 p.m. To-morrow 3.4 a.m., 2.27 p.m. ABBIVAtS. July 17--J hn Penn, s.s., 12 : '« t'lis, Carey, from Hokitika and Greymouth. D. K. Gellion, agent. Kennedy, s.s, tons, Whitwoll, from Nelson. VV. J. Willcocks, agent. DEPABTUBES. July 18—John Perm, s.s, Cany, for Wangani.i and Manukau. Northern Light, schooner, Kyle, for Melbourne. PASSENGER LTST. Per John Penn, from Hokitika and Greymouth—Mr and Mrs Gallagher, Messrs Neill, Falln, Honison, Hewitt, Dewdney, Bosales, Smyth, Graham, Puerst, Jones, and 12 for Manukau. Per John Penn, for Wanganui and Onehunga—Miss Cunningham, Messrs Eraser, Graham, Heighway, Wilson, and Gray, and 12 original. Per Northern Light, for Melbourne —Messrs Donald, Mac, and Allen. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—The Lord Bishop of Nelson, Miss Barkley, Mr Donne, M.P.C., Messrs M'lntosh, M'Crindle, Brown, Pickard, and Christy Minstrels (7). IMPORTS. Per Kennedy, from Nelson —25 cases geneva, 2 qr-easks brandy, Stitt Bros.; 10 kegs butter, Smyth and Co.; 4 cases hams, order; 2 kegs butter, Rawling; 1 stove, Pitt j 76 mats sugar, Powell and Co.; 2 kegs butter, Simon; 7 trunks hoots, Mailer; 10 cases apples, 3 do eggs, Carpenter; 1 cask tar, 8 oars, 2 kegs nails, 2 drums tar, 1 pkg blocks, 1 coil rope, fetitt Bros.; 5 cases hams, Powell and Co.; 7 trunks boots, Simpson; 5 cases hams, 3 casks eggs, Bailie and Humphrey ; 1 pel gloves, 1 case drapery, Graves; 1 case boots, 1 bale leather, 1 truss do, Mailer. Per John Penn, shipped at Hokitika—lsoo feet timber, Bull and Bond ; 1 case drapery, Gallagher. Shipped at Greymouth—2 pkgs drapery, 2000 feet timber, 1 case drapery, order; 1 ton coal, Falla. EXPORTS. Per Northern Light, for Melbourne—Bo bales sheepskins, 14 casks tallow, Organ ; 1 bale corks, Bailie and Humphrey. The s.s. John Penn arrived at Westport from Hokitika and Greymouth yesterdaymorning early and sailed at 1 p.m. the same day for Wanganui and Auckland. The s.s. Kennedy, Capt. Whitwell, arrived at Nelson on Friday last, and left the following evening for the We«t Coast, arriving at Westport shortly after midnight on Sunday. The Kennedy sailed for Hokitika early this morning, and will call at Westport on her return trip to Nelson on Friday next. The schooner Northern Light sailed for Melbourne yesterday in tow of the s.s. John Penn.

The s.s. Murray was to have left Nebon for the West Oast on Saturday, but on the eve of starting some accident occurred to her machinery, which necessitated a few days delay to effect repairs. The s.s. Storm Bird was to It ave Wanga-ei-peuvelr aV-vrestpt/rtr txr mow- u yfJ-'Wlfen" ihte sails for Nelson and Wangmui. H.M.S. RosaWo arrived in Wellington on Ihe 12th from Bounty Islands, whither she has been on a cruise to see if any traces of the Matoaka were to be discovered. Nothing waa seen of either wreck or castaways. The Blanche is now on the same errand at the Auckland Islands, and may be expected in a short time. The barque Gloucester sailed from Wellington on the Bth instant, for London. Her cargo consisted of fio6 bales of wool, 621 bags of flax and tow, 71 pkgs of skins, 937 pkgs of tallow, and a quantity of miscellaneous goods, consisting of wine, iron, butter, jams, bones, copper, &c.; the whole valued at £20,000. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co. are about to inaugurate a new traffic —steam communication with the Fiji Islands. They announce that they will despatch one of their New Zealand boats to Fiji early in August, should sufficient, inducement offer.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARItIVALS. Blott. —July 16—Tararua, from Dunedin. Nelson. —July IG—Phoebe, from Auckland. Wanganui.—July 1G Wanganui, from Westport. Picton. —July 17—Phoebe, from Nelson. Wellington.—July 17 Phcebe, from Picton. DEPASTURES. Bltjtf.—July 16—Tararua, for Melbourne. Lyttelton.—July 18 Claud Hamilton, for Wellington. Wellington.—July 18—Phcebe, for Lyttelton.